ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, June 1, 1995                   TAG: 9506020031
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: N-10   EDITION: METRO 
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IN SCHOOL

AMANDA PHILLIPS, daughter of Janet Phillips-Burrow of Roanoke and Steven N. Phillips of Lawrenceville, Ga., joined 15 other Guilford College students in using spring break vacation to repair the roof of a poverty-stricken family's home.

Phillips was one of about 50 volunteers from the Greensboro, N.C., college to participate in the ``Semester Break Work Trip'' program organized by the college's Office of Campus Ministry.

CHARDIE LYNN BAIRD of Roanoke has been named to the faculty honor list for the fall semester at the College of Charleston, S.C.

A'ISHAH ABDULLAH of Roanoke and a junior at Virginia State University in Petersburg, has been selected for the 1995 National Black Music Caucus Intercollegiate Symphonic Band of Music Educators National Conference in Philadelphia.

The band is made up of exceptional student musicians from historically black colleges and universities across the nation.

KELLY DIERKER, a junior at Pfeiffer College in Misenheimer, N.C., was named to Phi Delta Sigma, a scholastic honor society, and elected to the student government association as a senator.

Dierker, a English and business administration major, is the daughter of Judith and Richard Dierker of Roanoke.

LINDSAY SHAWN CHENG of Roanoke recently was recognized as a national outstanding campus leader in the 1995 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

Cheng is studying engineering at Virginia Tech, where he is newsletter editor for the Golden Key National Honor Society, the presidential ambassador for Student Alumni Associates and a member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.

STEVEN M. McGARRY and JAMES H. MULLENS IV, both of Roanoke, have earned scholarships at Hampden-Sydney College.

McGarry won the Thomas Wyndham Jamison Memorial Scholarship, which was established in 1990 by George B. Cartledge Jr., Charles B. Cartledge Sr., Charles I. Lunsford II, and Robert H. Bennett, all of Roanoke, in memory of their classmate and friend.

McGarry, a senior, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. McGarry of Roanoke.

Mullens won the Lewis O. Brown Memorial Scholarship, which was established in 1973 by Mary Patsel Brown, in memory of her husband, a Roanoker.



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